After the success of his autobiography IF CHINS COULD KILL: CONFESSIONS OF A B-MOVIE ACTOR, cult icon Bruce Campbell crafts MAKE LOVE THE BRUCE CAMPBELL WAY, a fictional sequel detailing what happens when he’s offered a role in a huge Hollywood romantic comedy, to be directed by Mike Nichols and starring Richard Gere and Renee Zellweger.
The film is LET’S MAKE LOVE and he’s cast as Foyl, a wisecracking Southern doorman who gives Richard Gere’s character advice about love and life. Not sure about any of these things, Bruce goes undercover as a doorman, a Southern gentleman, a sleazy Las Vegas ladies man and eventually superstar producer Robert Evans, all of which leads him to being labeled a terrorist, among other things. Yes, it’s pretty much the definition of madcap.
How is Campbell as a fiction writer? The only real complaint would have to be his reliance of clichéd phrases does get a little tiresome after a while (really my only complaint with CHINS, also), but it’s pretty easy to overlook this because hey, he’s Bruce Campbell. It’s fun from start to finish, mixing his always-welcome brand of self-deprecation with enough fanboy name-dropping and snarky anti-Hollywood cattiness that it’s packed with enough laughs to satisfy anyone wanting a nerdy little page-turner that you can finish in a day or two.
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